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Beverly Hills Breakdown: The Donna Martin Top Five
I present to you the first in my series of 90210 top fives. There is no secret formula or logic behind these lists, only my continuing obsession for the best teen drama ever (not including Buffy, of course), and whatever plot lines stick out most in my mind. So here are my top five Donna Martin-centric episodes.
5) “Ode to Joy” (2000) - The season finale, in which Donna and David get married. A lot of people don’t enjoy the final few seasons of the show, when the characters are all grown up, having babies, working, getting hitched. But these are my favorite seasons. I ended up totally in love with David and Donna, and shed many tears during their nuptials. Even if Brandon was so rude as to only appear via video tape. Whatev.
4) “The Girl Who Cried Wolf, Law and Disorder, Making Amends” (1998) - Donna gets addicted to painkillers! After a bad car accident! She steals pills! From her dad’s office! She steals fashion designs! She passes out on the floor! She gets taken to the hospital! Then she’s okay. Phew.
3) “P.S. I Love You Part 2” (1995) - Donna’s bad-boy musician boyfriend Ray shoves her down a flight of stairs. She ends up with an injured arm, yet continues to date Ray for a good portion on season 6. Good judgement, Martin!
2) “Graduation Day Part 2” (1997) - Donna gives up the big V to David. Incredibly uncomfortable scene involving white lingerie and candles. I don’t want to think about it any more than I have to. But in a Donna Top Five, you have to include this pivotal moment.
1) “Something in the Air” (1993) - Donna gets drunk at the prom and gets in big trouble at school: she can’t graduate, and has to go summer school. But never fear, the gang’s all here! The student body marches on the school board meeting, and voila! Ms. Martin graduates with the rest of the class of 1993. Say it with me: “Donna Martin graduates! Donna Martin graduates!”
Kelly Taylor Returns to West Beverly High
A quickie-post for our good friend, Bethany: Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Kelly Taylor will be the new guidance counselor at West Beverly High. That’s right, Jennie Garth is joining the cast of the 90210 sequel/spinoff.
Discuss.
Geek Force FiveCast 013 (Video)
I attended the inaugural meeting of New Hampshire Media Makers on Sunday, May 11. This is me geeking out about that. Links to many of the cool people I met can be found in the video, or else at the various blogs that have covered the event: 1, 2, and 3. Roger Goun took photos (as did several others), and his photos can be found here.
Translating the Bible into lolspeak - LOLCat Bible
Pop17 has an interview with Martin Grondin, the man behind the LOLCat Bible. A LOLCat, if you’re not familiar, is “an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as ‘Kitty Pidgin’, ‘lolspeak’, or Lolcat.” And what Martin is doing, in case it isn’t obvious, is translating the Bible into lolspeak. You can find the results here.Here’s a snippet from Genesis to whet your appetite.
Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.
7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.
8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.
For more LOLCat fun, check out I Can Has Cheezburger.
Geek Force FiveCast 012 (Video)
It’s April 28, 2008, and today I’m geeking out about the woman who married me seven years ago today.
Today’s Geek Force FiveCast is a clip from my wedding ceremony, which took place on April 28, 2001. Specifically, it’s a clip of the first dance, which was not planned or choreographed in any way. My wife was and is a dancer, but I’ve never had very many moves of my own. I decided to surprise her that day by putting a little bit more into the dance than we’d probably discussed. The result, as you’ll see, is two parts funny and three parts rot-your-teeth sweet. Enjoy!
